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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2024640" data-attributes="member: 3477">It's not that CRPGs just appeared last year. There was the Ultima series, there was Baldurs Gate, etc. Most of these games allowed the player some roleplaying experience, but the path was very much set. If you played the game several times, that was it.If we then look at MMORPGs, there were only 2 real successes so far: Everquest and Ultima Online. Most other games with their superior graphics got boring very fast. Ultima Online is a phenomenon, because you had very broad choices there, despite its shoddy graphics. However, most people get bored with games like this after some time. The developers try to make the game interesting by changing things constantly, but this only helps so much. It's the same game, nevertheless.I expect WoW to be a huge success. It will probably have an enormous player base. However, lastly no CRPG so far can compete with the versatility of the own imagination. Tabletop RPGs are more work, and they take very much time to play them, and they need more organization, yes. But they are immensively more flexibel than any CRPG can be. It's no guaranty for tabletop RPGs to stay, but it's a good chance <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.On a sidenote: For quite a lot of people, CRPGs are the entry point to the tabletop RPG hobby. It's not a one-way road <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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